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laid down pretty early in life. The impact of the primary relationship (usually mommy and daddy) on subsequent behavior is pretty well established. If you observe mommy and daddy in chaotic and abusive situations, you will tend to imprint that as 'normal'; if you observe happiness and light, you will tend to imprint that. If daddy wasn't there, you tend to be distrustful of men in general, thinking them unreliable (as below, this tends to promote further behaviors which only strengthen your beleif). If mommy was emotionally distant (shit, look at how much stuff gets fucked up if babies aren't held early in life), you end up emotionally distant. Refrigerator mother, the old (fucked up) theory of autism (not that it probably isn't true outside of most autism spectrum type disorders
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